None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth